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Actors Quotes by James Franco

14 Actors quotes by James Franco

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If you’ve ever wondered what fuels a performer’s craft, Franco’s words give a quick, personal glimpse into the mindset behind the roles. This handful of thoughts captures his blend of curiosity and discipline, offering a solid starter for anyone curious about his artistic outlook.

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Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

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When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a…

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Of course there are some actors that are better than others and performances that are better than others, but they're always embedded…

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I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh,…

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When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if…

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There's a large chunk of me in all the parts. As an actor, I got involved largely because I want to let…

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As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or…

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I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, "Brokeback Mountain" was a big breakthrough. I'm pretty sure when they were…

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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to…

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There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot…

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A lot of the people in San Francisco think of themselves as healers - not just as people delivering this base service,…

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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as…

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When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things…

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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be…

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I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through…

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Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

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I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the…

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I was a black center in the middle of all the nature. I was nothing, but I could do anything.

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I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

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Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don’t compromise. You can do other things to make money,…

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I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I…

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The wind came in languid gusts like whispered reminders.

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In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside…

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Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person…

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I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

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If you have a profession that depends on what you look like, you can't blame somebody for caring about that. It's part of their…

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